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v WEATHER+ NORTH CAROLINA Cloudy and mild with widely scattered showers Monday. Mostly cloudy and slightly warmer Monday night Showers ond mild Tuesday. V tv' - 9 *DMJMB 1 GENERAL UTILITY CO. SUFFERS BIG LOSS IN FIRE Communists Agree To Freeze And Inspection Terms ) Bl * A Mi *■ ' */PPfll I OLD SANTA COMES TO TOWN Dunn’S Christmas parade Sstnrdnr night was the biggest, prettiest and most sneeessfnl ever held here and, as usual, .Old Santa Clans received a Mg ovation. He’s shown here in front of the fire station waving to the children. Herman Neighbors, pjresn* ent Dunn business man and volunteer fireman, is shown at left of the track, which was being oper ated by John K. Norris. The crowd attending the parade was the largest ever to attend a Christmas ,r*--~-rr-“ —— ir - Harnett Negro Is Slain Sam Allen McNeill, about 30. a Dunn Negro, died in the Dunn Hos pital last night about 8 o'clock as the result of rifle wounds received early Sunday morning at the hands of James Roy Womack, 35, of near Lillington. I Womack brought McNeill to the Dunn Hospital and then reported to the Dunn police station and told officers that he shot McNeill when he took a shotgun, advanced on him and threatened his life. The fatal shooting occurred at Womack's home In Upper Little River Township, about six miles from Lillington. McNeill was living at Womack's home at the time. WAS DRINKING Womack said McNeill took a shot | gun and went into his bedroom and told Womack he was going to kill him. He said he could tell Mc- Neill had been drinking. Re said he ordered McNeill tc put (Continued op Page Two) Yule Carols > To Be Sung At Campbell On Sunday, December 9, be ginning at 6:30 pjn. the people of this area will be given the oppor tunity to come together to partici pate in an old-fashioned Chrpt mas Carol Festival. This event will be held in 'the D. Rich Memorial ' Auditorium on the campus of Campbell College. I The program Is the first of Its kind to be held in this area, and ' already has attracted much inter est The Festival being promoted and sponsored by the Campbell College Concert Association, is de signed to help preserve and revlt (Continued an Bare twoi Ike Says Thanks For * His Showing In Poll Dwight manTthan^ fourth of the Republicans to the Haas favor him as their pretiden - Klsenhowar wrote Rep. W. Ster the poll, that he was “flattered” to TELEPHONES: SI 17 - 1110 - sll9 Dear Santa Claus Benson, N. C. «t. 1 Dear Santa Claus, I am a little boy, fouy years old. Mv name, is W*vne Benson, and I go f" Sunday School every Sun day. What I want sot Christmas a watch, fiddle, and a tractor. Please dent forget the boys and r*rlv for T want them to be han nv t«o. Plea— don't forget mv two slHers for thev want something too. I have, been » rood Httie bdv and help mv mother and father v»ry much. My parents names Art Mr. and Mrs. Paul Benson. With love. Wavne Benson, Benson, N. C. > Rt. 1 ntlington. N. 0. Rt. 2, Box 38 Dear Santa Claus, I would like to write you a nice little note because I love you so much. You have been so good to me at Christmas. I am a little Four Boys Killed In TankTruckExplosion (BF UNITED PRESS- Four boys shooting firecrackers s tossed one into a gasoline tank truck and were killed ter an ex plosion In the worst tragedy of a w eke-end that brought violent or accidental death to at i»fp 20 per sona. in North Carolina, a -United Press survey Showed Monday. Don. M, Dwain, t, and Dexter, 3, sons of Mr. and Mrs. Oliver accept the bid to declare himself i a candidate for the Bopubtteaa presidential p'-"*n- l ‘ t, l i T. 1 <- i Wxt Bailu l&tmvfr - girl eleven years old ahd got brown eyes.and black hair. 1 am smart and help my mother do the housework. I would like for you to bring me a piano and a camera and two rolls of films. I know you would like to bring it to me. Thank you. Edle Lou Lee Route 3 Benson, N. C. Dean Santa Claua. - t am a little rlrl five years old. I want you to bring me a doll and cradle, and I also waht a pair of hedroom slippers. My little sister. Fav. is three years old and she would like the same thing you bring me. Thank you. Wanda Kay Miller Angler. Rt. 2 Nov. 30, 1951 Dear Santa Claus, Please bring me a Roy Rogers (Oenthmed m page two) Hopkins.' and Harold Whitley, 14, .son of Mr. and Mrs. Omus Wha ley went killed Instantly In the tank truck blast near Middlesex. Two men were killed when their plane crashed into a house at Ashe boro and burned. They were identi fied as James D. Hooker, 22. a Marine Just returned from Korea, and Dwid Ledwell. 26, bath of Asheboro. Fires destroyed four homes, kill ing 80-year-old James Philo HAD near North WUkesboro. Julius La mar Norfleet,.47, of Beaufort Ooun ty. Joseph Robey Jarrell 41, of Coleridge and two-year-old Ruddy Green at Craggy Hills near Ashe i BUfumiii **&m in Yi.nA.liWife i poultry marfei|££ •* 4 ■*'V t-;% * DUNN, N. C., MONDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 3, 1951 Early Morning fj Blaze Damage i Put At mOOO An early-morning fire to day struck the General UtiU-d ty Company in Dunn, one 00 the largest cotton gins in this pecticin, and did damage estimated at between $40,000 and $50,000. The fire was discovered this morning about 4:ls am- by Police man K. M. Fall as he was patroll ing that area of town, and flrib men responded Immediately. Myres W. Tilghnian, owner of the company, said the fire appart ently started from a short-circuit In a truck loaded with soybean* parked under the seed house. ,' The big seed house, which quick ly turned, into s burning inferno, was completely destroyed and ae mollshed, and the blase spread in to the gin building next door. Part of the gin building was burned and the ginning equipment was damaged. FIREMEN PRAISED Mr. Tilghman, who offered high praises for Dunn's fire department, said that approximately $4,000 worth of cotton seed were lost and at least 100 bales of cotton. The loss, he said, was only par tially covered by lnsuranoe. - General Utility Company is One IC—tli aed Da Page tes) MMm u Being Shown The great new 1952 Pontiac, featuring spectacular new dual range performance, went op dis play tips morning in the showrooms of Strickland Motor Company in Dunn. • i • , President Paul L. Strickland, Vice President Dennis Strickland, of ficials of the company. Joined In IC—timed Oa Page Five) SPORTS BULLETIN RALEIGH. (IP) Beat tie Feathefe has been re leased aa head football coach at North Carolina State Col lege, it was announced Mon day afternoon. ( BULLETINS CLEVELAND.—(W—Louis B. Seltzer, editor of the Cleveland Press, has received the 1951 Brotherhood Award of Hie National Conference of Christians and lews. NEW YORK.—OR—The New York Dally News raised its suburban newsstand price from four to five cents Monday because, of “mounting production and distribution cwts.” The city’s other morning tabloid, the Daily Mrror, had already made a gimflhr price increase. NEWARK, N. J.—Ah—Prudential Insurance Co., hit by the first strike against an insurance firm, Spealed to 28,- ' (O—«■■»« Page Tmi State Legjqn Chiqf To Speak Thursday State OcmmAwder Lo«i» F. Par ker of the American Legion, a native —id—nn Bla mg ' f . “ v_ • '■ ■ - fev ; - : ; v, ( , . ; - ■ •. ! 4 . 1 . _ 11l ' p I m a— ' . && 111 . gt ■■■ iiH l 5 ■ -; I f . 1? C ® N ® °T, ~ The * h * mWe * w»d »»l>e» shown in the center this morning was all that was , **• *9 the big seed house at the General Utility Company in Dunn. A truck parked under the seed house caught fire and the blase completely demolished the structure. The Maze also spread to the 1 gm. b- ■ —. Three Officers Hurt In Crash VIIIJ J VUJvJt Heard Today Only five cases were tried before Judge H. Paul Strickland this morning In a brief session In City Court. Solicitor J. Shephard Bryan prosecuted the docket. t Jesse James Maynard drew a sentence of 80 days, suspended six months on payment of 810 and costs, for public drunkenness. He hod been convicted of similar of fenses reoently and Is to remain on flood behavior. Lamce Vance Bethea was taxed costs with prayer for Judgment con tinued for speeding 60 in a 35 mile ■one. Prayer for Judgment was con ic—tinned On Page Five) ■Hi pHBBT FIVE CENTS PER COPY tAo Highway Patrolmen and L&wfcM&ief of Police Claude‘Avery. "WWe injured, when ukpatoWcttr they were riding in pursuit of an- OUWt Mt overturned on a dirt road between Erwin and Byrd’s Mill last night. The officers, with Patrolman Da vid Matthews at the wheel, were speeding In pursuit of the car, which they had observed earlier, when the patrol car went out of control on the treacherous dirt road. The car turned over two and one-half-times, and came to rest on its wheels, tumbling Matthews, Avery and Patrolman Joe Whitaker about in the car and completely wrecking the vehicle. CUMBED OUT WINDOW Avery ran the window in* tile right rear down and clambered out He aided Patrolman Matthews from the wreckage and together, the two officers extricated Whitaker, who was the most badly injured of the three. Whitaker was carried to the Dunn Hospital ahd later last night transferred to Rex Hospital in Ra leigh. The other two officers were given first aid treatment but were not injured seriously enough to re quire hospitalization. Walter GSiney of Lind—, identi fied as the driver of the car the officers were pursuing, was arrest ed for speeding and careless and reckless driving. He was later re leased under bond of 8300 for ap pearance in Harnett County Re corder’s Court December 18th , irnt „ L-i. lined ap to percheM UMr Uceaaes. The croerdkept coaUa, >Ol Mental Milp Jto >«»•«* tajjl preMX el M MMhm .ejr that the autp rlT^«££«**&. I raxtoM to toe niton. <B»*r Itort pheta hr Lm, tamm. The Record Gets Results l Wreck Is Falsi J To Harnett Man Herbert Pope. 29. of Coats, Route 1 died in the Dunn Hospital Sun day morning at 5 o'clock as the result of Injuries received In a highway accident. The aocldent occurred between Coats and Bailey’s Crossroads Saturday morning at I o’clock. The accident was investigated by State Patrolman Paul Albergine. Be said Pope lost control of Jiis car while rounding a curve. Funeral services for Pope, driver of a lumber truck, were held Mon day afternoon at 3 o'clock at the Little Flock Primitive Baptist Church on Angler, Route 2. Elder Shepard Btephenson of Benson of ficiated and burial was in the church cemetery. Surviving are his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Pope of Coats, Route 1; seven brothers, Leon, Aaron, Sherwood, Sammy, Ray mond and Johnny, all of Coats, Route 1; and Charles of Benson, Route 11 three sisters, Mrs. Edward Lewis of Dunn, Route 3; Kathleen and Barbara Ann of Coats, Route 1: and his grandparent* Mr. arid Mrs. E. K. Williams of Coats Rt. 1. and J. R. Pope of Coats, Route I. - ■ - ~ I Hopes Rise As Deadlo# Is Broken PANMUNJOM, Korea.—4® . —The Communists broke the Korean armistice deadlock Monday by agreeing to a to tal arms freeze and propos ing that “neutral” inspec tors come behind tEe Iron Curtain to enforce,!);;: . - 4 It was the first time that Com munists anywhere have, accepted the principle of arms hind their borders or lines. "2^- But they phrased the concessions in language that might end the V. ' S. rotation program, prevent -re- , placement of battleworn' 'units and permit the Communists to compatfO new Jet airfields. SEEK CLARIFICATION 3 United Nations truce negotiators sought to clarify the Red proposed by posing 21 questions. The Oopp; munists promised to answer thtm J Uonunued On Pace Twei.'C'.. City Council Meets Tonite I The group who confer thik af ternoon with the Harnett County , Board of Commissioner* win re- port to the Town Board when 19 J meets tnntyhf, Hi their conference, City Martagegr - Oliver* O. Manning said this mom* * to*. . 'S -.IMMm The City Manager, together with Mayor Ralph Hanna, R. G. Tfcrt, J. V. Bass I. a Williams. Die. i Charles W. Byrd, and Dr. W. fL ' Hunter will petition the board tor | a new Health Center In Dunn. ? . Other items expected to come 1 ; before the town body are; purchaae ' of a new police car; discussion on 1 the Kneepants League and overall ' recreation; and the hiring of extra police help for service during the 5 r holiday period. STATE NEWS BRIEFS ; WINSTON-SALEM # “ fb« completely destroyed the bus dfcg&t , and repair shops of the Twin <py 1 , Lines Just outside this City Satur day. The loss was partly covenß , by Insurance. i • GREENSBORO iff) B. K. "j i Cummings, head of the Income i : division of the office at the ctiCS* I tor of internal revenue, for North . | Carolina, will resign Dec. 10, Cbl (Continued On Page Five)
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